Serial shoplifter Dean Grundell jailed after threats to reporter from the dock in court

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The following month he appeared in the show’s segment ‘I’m ashamed of my son – he’s a drug taking criminal!’

Kyle criticised him for using the name of his show to get out of jail but Grundell was still offered 84 days in rehab to get clean - an opportunity he quit just 24 hours later.

Earlier this month magistrates at the Huddersfield court issued a warrant for his arrest when he skipped his hearing.

This was for theft of £200 worth of spirits, which he swiped from Morrisons in Waterloo on March 16.

Grundell also failed to comply with his court-ordered drug treatment requirement after missing follow-up appointments when he urine-tested positive for drugs.

Mike Sisson-Pell, mitigating, said that his client had appeared before the courts with “alarming regularity” since 1998 due to his misuse of class A drugs.

He said: “It’s taken its toll on his body and mental health.

“He’s a mess, a skeleton under his clothing with a very nasty wound to his leg as a result of DVT.

“He is not long for this world if he carries on and his plea to the court today is to send him to prison.

“He can’t hack it out here and (in prison) he’s going to do what he needs to do to get himself on the right track.”

Of his client’s outburst in court, Mr Sisson-Pell added: “I’ve no doubt he’ll reflect on his behaviour in court and be sorry for that - it puts him in a very poor light.”

Magistrates activated Grundell’s suspended sentence order and jailed him for a total of 26 weeks.

He has to pay £115 victim surcharge upon his release from custody.